Union Will File Complaint against Lollapalooza Organization for Slave-Like Working Conditions

Workers from adult shelters in São Paulo received R$50 for 12-hour days

Apr.9.2019 2:46PM

ANAÏS FERNANDES
SÃO PAULO

The Sated-SP (Union of Artists and Technicians in Shows and Entertainment of the State of São Paulo) will ask the Labor Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate the recruitment of people in vulnerable situations to assemble Lollapalooza festival stages, which ended on Sunday (7) in São Paulo.

T4F (Time For Fun), the company that organized Lollapalooza, said it will not protest.

Folha's report showed that workers recruited from shelters for adults received R$50 (US$ 13) for 12-hour days in which they helped load equipment in the assembly of the festival.

The working day by CLT (Consolidation of Labor Laws) is 8 hours, plus 2 overtime, a period in which the remuneration is 50% higher than the normal hour. In the state of São Paulo, the daily minimum wage by law is R$38.80 (US$ 10). For 12 hours, it would be about R$68 (US$ 17).

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